The provincial government has eliminated all compulsory certification, so essentially to get your certification for any trade is voluntary. There is no reason in this province to even pursue that. I personally believe that was all part of a constructive effort to de-skill the workforce in this province. It also works hand in hand with bringing in unskilled foreign workers, because if you have no benchmark or standard to measure a person to...and that's happening right now. The fraud that's going on between citizenship and immigration is just incredible. People are being brought in and are being described as people who are skilled in a trade, but they have no knowledge of that trade whatsoever. That was done, all hand in hand with the compliance team that was set up by the previous government that investigated these kinds of issues. That was the first thing this provincial Liberal government did. They eliminated that compliance team, which was CIC, Human Resources Canada, and employment standards.
On November 8th, 2006. See this statement in context.